# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mary-meachum
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:15:46.734Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mary-meachum"
name: "Mary Meachum"
slug: "mary-meachum"
description: "John Berry Meachum was an American pastor, businessman, educator and founder of the First African Baptist Church in St. Louis, the oldest black church west of the Mississippi River. At a time when it was illegal in the city to teach people of color to read and write, Meachum operated a school in the church's basement. Meachum also circumvented a Missouri state law banning education for black people by creating the Floating Freedom School on a steamboat on the Mississippi River."
tagline: "American abolitionist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/4271695318-marymeachum.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1801"
deathDate: "1869"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           35.54
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.802952
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A_%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%88%D9%85"
    title: "ماري ميتشوم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%89_%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%88%D9%85"
    title: "مارى ميتشوم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Meachum"
    title: "Mary Meachum"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Meachum"
    title: "Mary Meachum"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Meachum"
    title: "Mary Meachum"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22018959"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump